male and female Pintail on the reserve today

2 Pintail - reservoir lagoon, main lake

35 Greylag Goose - main lake

6 Snipe - grazing marsh

2 Meadow Pipit - grazing marsh

4 Stonechat - grazing marsh

4 Siskin - sheltered lagoon

3 Chiffchaff - South route, sheltered lagoon, wildside

October bird highlights: Teal(200+), Pintail, Pochard(52), Jack Snipe, Green Sandpiper, Common Sandpiper, Dunlin, Redshank, Great White Egret, Water Rail, Hobby, Little Egret, Yellow-legged Gull, Stonechat, Garden Warbler, Siskin, Skylark, Linnet.

Invertebrates: (late September) Common Darter (see photo below), Willow Emerald Damselfly, Migrant Hawker, Southern Hawker, Common Blue Damselfly, Ruddy Darter, Red Admiral, Speckled Wood, Small White, Common Carder Bee, Common Furrow Bee, Honey Bee, Buff-tailed Bumblebee, Beewolf, Red-legged Shieldbug, Common Sheetweb Spider, Common Stretch Spider, Common Wolf Spider, Wasp Spider.

Moths: (September) Box Tree (dark form), Gold Spot, Tree-lichen Beauty, White-point, Jersey Tiger, Rush Veneer, Pale Mottled Willow, Diamond-back, Dark sword-grass, Rusty Dot Pearl, Silver Y, The Gem, Convolvulus Hawk-moth, Clifden Nonpareil (see photo below), The Delicate.

Fungus: (August 30th Survey) Meadow Puffball (see photo below on left), Grey Puffball (see photo below on right), Giant Puffball, Tar-spot Fungus, Shaggy Parasol, Lumpy Bracket, Pancake Crust, Bleached Brittlegill, Candelsnuff Fungus, Brown Birch Bolete, Oak Curtain Crust, Blushing Bracket, Oak Mazegill, Brown Rollrim, Blushing Milkcap.

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